With the coronavirus pandemic threatening countries around the world, panic buying has unfortunately become a common story in supermarkets and groceries.

But what’s even worse than panic buying is hoarding. Both the law and other people frown on hoarders with good reason. By buying much more than what they need, they deprive other people who may also need those same goods that were hoarded.

One Canadian couple who “bragged” at the checkout counter about buying up a supermarket’s entire meat supply is finding out the hard way that it’s not good to hoard after they have been left in fear of their lives after receiving multiple death threats.

A supermarket customer named Taylor Born managed to videotape Dan Marcotte and his girlfriend as they grabbed several types of meat at the Save On Foods in Lake Country.

The couple is seen at the checkout line pushing two carts filled to the brim with meat at a time when people around the world have been struggling to just get some basic necessities.

Speaking to Kelowna Now, Born said Marcotte and his girlfriend “ran in front of other customers, cutting them off to take every last item.”

She claims they then “bragged” about cleaning out the shelves with “nothing left for anyone to get.”

Since the incident, Marcotte, who owns the Dan-Mel moving company, has spoken out to blame the panic-buying fever that has gripped thousands of people, driving them to rush to stores and grab as many essential items as they could get their hands on.

“Everybody knows who I am because I put myself out there, (now) I’m getting death threats and I don’t answer the phone so I’m losing business. My own mother is ashamed of me,” Marcotte told Vancouver Is Awesome.

Marcotte added that he has since donated $1,000 to the Lake Country Food Bank.

He admitted that the stockpiling was a “mistake” and claims he was simply got caught up in all the anxiety generated by the coronavirus pandemic.

“If I and my girlfriend had done this two months ago nobody would say a bloody word. We’re getting crucified for buying two carts of meat. We might have gone overboard, but we didn’t push people or laugh at anyone.

“I’m not feeling safe, and I and my girlfriend are scared.”

The incriminating video has since been taken off Facebook.

Meanwhile, Save On Foods announced that they will now be limiting the number of certain items customers are allowed to buy at a time.

 

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